Surely We have given thee
abundance of good.
So pray to thy Lord and sacrifice.
Surely thy enemy is cut off (from good).(The Holy Quran: 108:1-3)

Dear Members of the Jamaat
[Movement],

Assalaam-o-Alaikum
Wa Rakhmatullahi Wa Barakaato Hoo.

We will be celebrating Eid-ul-Adha to
mark the completion of the Hajj, the Pilgrimage. This
is a form of a devotional act which Allah has ordained on
the Muslims and is a form of service which represents a
mans humbleness, devotion, and submissiveness; will to
stay on the path of steadfastness and spirit of sacrifice.
Thus Hajj is the ultimate form of prayer which holds within
it the spirit of all other prayers that Allah has ordained
for the Believers.

The actual celebration of the Eid, a
day of recurring happiness in its literal sense, is also a
day spent in spiritual devotional activities particularly
the prayer and the sacrificing of an animal both of which
are eluded in verses of the Chapter 108 of the Holy Quran
with which I started this message.

In its second verse Allah commands
So pray to thy Lord and sacrifice thus
rendering both the services mandatory for us to
follow.

Dear bothers and sisters,

I hope that we can come out of the
mosques after the Eid prayer with the intention to carry on
with the spirit of devotion and submissiveness which Prophet
Abraham (pbuh) demonstrated in his life and thus became a
role model for all those who are Muslims, i.e., submitters
to the Will of Allah; we should also be ready to make every
sacrifice that Allah may try us with in the defense and
propagation of Islam, the prime goal of all members of the
Ahmadiyya Jamaat [Movement]; we should be as
submissive as the animal that we sacrifice; we should live
in such a way that we in all sincerity may from the depth
act upon the verse 6:163 which states:

My prayer and my
sacrifice and my life and my death are surely for Allah,
the Lord of the worlds. No associate has
He.

I pray that Allah grant us the spirit
of the Eid so our prayers, sacrifices, lives and death are
in His service. May Allah remove all hurdles that come up in
the spread of Islam.